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I learned something about the allied D-Day landing in World War II

This past week I learned something. Me and the wife went to Normandy, France. We took a D-Day tour (the wife has posted pix of it on Facebook, I don’t have any).

I always thought that the Allied landing was all the countries’ personnel working together in one massive group and storming the beach together. I got this perception from all the movies I’ve seen of it (well one movie- Saving Private Ryan).

But it turns out that’s not entirely accurate. There were five different beaches they landed on (spread out over 50 miles), and they were separated into the respective nations. The U.K. landed on Gold and Sword beaches, Canada landed on Juno beach, and the US landed on Omaha (the Saving Private Ryan one) and Utah beaches.

They were all supposed to meet up but nearly all of them were delayed due to weather and other factors.